No. 158: Rising pay, fewer eats and a new role for Newman

September 11, 2016

TG it’s F: A happy ending to a short but busy week everybody, and thanks for nothing Hermine. Sincerely.

On this day previously: Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita dropped two incendiary bombs near Brookings, Ore. in 1942, hoping to start a forest fire. He didn’t. Fujita was invited back 20 years later to serve as grand marshal of the town’s Azalea Festival. One of the bombs is still missing.

Behind the headlines: Vox has everything Gary Johnson should have known about Aleppo.

Names dropped: Among the many cards and letters concerning last week’s item about Eagle Scouts came word that at least two of our readers are one. A three-fingered salute to you both, Irwin Krasnow and Peter Goldsmith.

Pay up: The Island’s 4.2 percent unemployment rate has been putting pressure on wages. Average weekly pay stubs climbed 2.4 percent in Nassau in the first quarter of the year and 1.2 percent in Suffolk, compared to a decline of 0.5 percent nationally, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Locally, hospital and construction jobs led the way.

Uniformly doing well: 41 of the 50 best-paid municipal workers in the state are from Long Island. All cops. (But you guessed that.)

Staying put: Farmingdale State College is touting – deservedly – new research that suggests its grads not only find work fast, but find it locally in big numbers.

Made elsewhere: Buffalo lost a full third of its manufacturing jobs over the past 15 years. (And Rochester would love to be able to say that.)

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The debate heats up: A new paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research maintains the proposed Caithness II power plant is too environmentally important not to build.In this order: “Women, wine, startups and entrepreneurs,” Sept. 28, 6 to 9 p.m., panel and pours, LaunchPad Huntington, details here.

And they’re feeling good about it: Arianna Huffington has tapped former NYT and Google execs for roles in her wellness startup, Thrive.

Doh: Apple accidentally posted a Twitter video showing off the new iPhone 7 – a full 45 minutes before company execs unveiled the device in San Francisco. (If you missed the show, the new black is … jet black.)